LETTER DUELS
Chapter 1: Trials and Tribulation


[Author's Note/Disclamer:] I don't own Digimon. I don't claim to. I am but a lowly fan with 0 to his name so HA! No money for you! Anyway here's my fic and if your a Sorato fan skip this chapter.

"But Sora?" a confused Matt questions. "Why do you want to leave me?"
"I already told you Matt, you never have enough time for me anymore."
"But that's exactly what I'm talking about, you never cared about the touring before," an even more confused Matt questions Sora, 'just the other day she said how great the band and I were for touring for charity last spring.' "Are you hiding something from me Sora because I can take whatever it is."

Matt knows this is sort of out of character for him to fight this hard, but who else was there. Tai wasn't able to take the pain with him like he usually did, literally, and besides that's probably who she was leaving him for.

"Alright Matt, I'll tell you the real reason. I just can't like you... I mean I like you, but as a brother not as a boyfriend."
"What," thinks Matt now taken aback by the last statement, he had prepared for the worse, not this, "as a brother," he echoes out loud, unintentionally. 'I guess all those times in the digiworld brought us together in the wrong way.'

It was almost as if she had read his mind repeating his exact phrase.

"I'm sorry Matt," is all the auburn haired girl can manage. "I didn't want to tell you, I thought that if I had made up something it might not hurt as bad."
"I understand," Matt responds in a not so convincing tone, "after all it had just been a plan to show Tai how much he cared about you," these words pierce his heart as he says them. 'Yeah only a plan.'
"So you do understand," Sora says all to ready to believe him. "Your the best Matt," she says embracing him.

This probably hurts the most, for the first time in weeks, since he has been gone so much, she hugs him like he did something marvelous, and why, because he set her free.

"So this is it Sora my last good-bye as your boyfriend," Matt farewells, struggling not to choke on his mixed feelings. "It has been fun..." he trails almost losing his composure when he regains, "for me."

Sora gives her good-byes to him as he gets in his car, then waves as he drives off waving back at her.


A few minutes later Matt pulls up to the parking lot of the apartment he lives in. As he fumbles with the keys he thinks, ' hey its not so bad Matt you've been through worse like the time with Mom and Dad,' he thinks back...maybe a decade. He doesn't know, he stopped counting a while back. All he can manage is a fuzzy scene of his Mom and Tk bawling, and looking up to his dad who's got his head turned. Matt doesn't know if it was fuzzy because it's been so long, or if he had been crying that long ago.

"Yeah I'm alright," Matt told himself as he walks through the door of his apartment.
Boom boom boom. Matt hears coming from the door as he walked through the small kitchen, he is cooking a TV dinner in the microwave at the time.
Boom boom boom. He hears again, "I'm coming"! he yells half way there.
Boom Boom Boom. 'Man whoever this is they sure are impatient,' Matt remarks as he opens and closes the door in shock. "June," Matt says opening the door now for a second time, "you startled me," he isn't lying. When he saw the conical sections of hair he always dreads, he nearly left his skin. "So why exactly are you here?" Matt interrogates his surprise guest.
She is wearing her normal jeans tie-died with hearts and Matt's name. And her shirt with Matt's face on the front with lips on his cheek.
"I don't remember those lips being there either, June," Matt continues.
"Well, I put them there myself," explains June. Just then Matt starts to feel a stabbing pain in his gut when he realizes that the lips were the same color as the lipstick Jun is wearing. "And I came here to cheer you up, Matt Ishida. As soon as Tai told me about your breakup that is. Oops! Tai told me not to tell you that he sent me to cheer you up."
'Tai sent June Motimiya to my house! To cheer me up'! Matt thinks, 'not only must he have known that Sora was going to dump me before she did, but he also sent the creepiest girl in the world to my house!'
Though Matt thinks all this, all he is able to manage is, "Tai sent you?"
"Yeah silly, didn't I just say that, you're so cute. Anyway I thought I would try to get your mind off of Sora by ~~~~~~~~~~~...." (authors note: that isn't profanity)
Matt is appalled. You can knock him over with a feather right now if you wanted to. The rest of what June says is lost to Matt, for he hears the rest as mumbles.

'How dare June Motimiya try to replace Sora with herself,' Matt thinks. '"I thought I would try to get your mind off of Sora," how by getting a restraining order against yourself.'

"I'm sorry June, but I'm busy. You have to go," he replies to the girl.
"But Matt," Boom, the door slams in the girl's face.

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